Supreme Court Upholds Trump's Cruelty, Remembers Venezuelan 'Socialism'
While the NYT frames this as a recent Trump-era policy, they skip the U.S. meddling that fueled the crisis in the first place. Remember the 2002 U.S.-backed coup attempt against Hugo Chávez, detailed even by the CIA’s own inspector general? Or the crippling sanctions that followed, escalated by Obama and weaponized by Trump, strangling Venezuela's economy and forcing millions to flee? (Think $38
billion in lost GDP by 2017 alone, per CEPR). Suddenly, these desperate migrants are 'not deserving' of protection. Funny how the 'socialism' America demonizes at home is precisely why they're fleeing, and America then acts shocked at the consequences. How many 'crises' does the U.S. have to create before it takes responsibility for the refugees?